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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

Thomas Carlyle

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Honor Kind Man Yourself
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

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